Tablet PCs and netbooks have become more popular than notebooks. Most of these devices, as well as most smartphones, use Google's Android. This puts a dent in Microsoft's OEM sales, but Windows 8 might be able to change that. If I didn't already have an Android tablet, I'd be saving for a Win 8 tablet right now.

A lot of Businesses have had a loss because of the mess in our economy
but doesn't mean that all of them are in a decline. If American Businesses
would stop outsourcing so many jobs and let American have more jobs
available here the economy would start to improve. Of course there are
a lot more things that need to be changed in the way our Government
is run.

You might fool the naive philistines, not me. Maybe you do not realize it yourself, but for the people with brains it is clear: you are working in Obama's favor by deviding and disorienting his opposition. Unlike most Americans, I do know very well what you do in Europe and all over the world.

Microsoft was a great investment from 1990 to 2000. Shortly after 2000, it dropped from almost $60 to about $30. It has been hovering around $30 for about 12 YEARS. Check the charts and see for yourself. Today's price is $30.24. When I see a tech mutual fund invested in MSFT, I know the fund manager is clueless. I can get a 0% return by stuffing money into a mattress.

The problem with tech companies is that they become dependent on a legacy cash cow. Along comes disruptive technology and the company has to choose between milking the cash cow and adopting disruptive technology. Most companies fail to make the transition. Microsoft was fortunate to escape MS-DOS and 16-bit Windows, but the handwriting is on the wall. Thanks to Internet standards and mobile technology, Microsoft's proprietary systems have been losing their captive hold on the customer base.

Microsoft would dearly love to do what Apple did when they totally abandoned the OS 9 code base and adopted OS X. But that's impossible when your cash cow depends on backwards compatibility going all the way back to Windows 95.

Thanks to legacy cash cows, Microsoft is the General Motors of technology -- surrounded by competitors with enviable positions. Apple is better, Linux is cheaper. Both Apple and Linux (Andr...

Microsoft was a great investment from 1990 to 2000. Shortly after 2000, it dropped from almost $60 to about $30. It has been hovering around $30 for about 12 YEARS. Check the charts and see for yourself. Today's price is $30.24. When I see a tech mutual fund invested in MSFT, I know the fund manager is clueless. I can get a 0% return by stuffing money into a mattress.

The problem with tech companies is that they become dependent on a legacy cash cow. Along comes disruptive technology and the company has to choose between milking the cash cow and adopting disruptive technology. Most companies fail to make the transition. Microsoft was fortunate to escape MS-DOS and 16-bit Windows, but the handwriting is on the wall. Thanks to Internet standards and mobile technology, Microsoft's proprietary systems have been losing their captive hold on the customer base.

Microsoft would dearly love to do what Apple did when they totally abandoned the OS 9 code base and adopted OS X. But that's impossible when your cash cow depends on backwards compatibility going all the way back to Windows 95.

Thanks to legacy cash cows, Microsoft is the General Motors of technology -- surrounded by competitors with enviable positions. Apple is better, Linux is cheaper. Both Apple and Linux (Android) scaled down to music players, tablets, and smart phones. Microsoft handhelds are the stuff of which Youtube parodies are made. Don't make me post them.

The decline of Microsoft has been clear to me since 2000. Their first quarterly loss is simply the latest clue.

Ha!
You fools think Bill Gates is going to let his company die while still attached to it? If Microsoft as a software company declines, they can still shave their company down to a console developer or whatever, they ain't going out like that.